glitching
not a plex user but someone buried the lede here… to me, this is the neon sign that screams GTFO:
we noticed that you’ve accessed libraries in the past
what business of yours is it to notice my private comings and goings?! what other actionable intel do y’all keep in your logs?! bye!
buncha clowns ITT laughing at a dude trying to swim for the first time. OMG how does he not know how to X and Y lolz why don’t you flatpak bust a cap in they ass…
this was an exceptionally excellent writeup especially with the “day 7: can’t do thing. day 10: here’s how to do thing” from the perspective of someone who used windows for ever and invariably looks at the thing from that point of view. dude pulled of transitioning a laptop with a buncha esoteric peripherals and an nvidia desktop and made almost everything work!
also, major ups for using the single most excellent solution for beginners, Ubuntu, and not getting lost in “no true scotsman” garudas and arches and atomic thisandthats.
first off, you can continue using your existing gOS phone, it’s not like it’s gonna melt in yo hands the moment it’s not “up to date” and there’s gonna be security updates for the A15 base for a long time, no need to dig up MP3 players and NIKONs from 1970.
I personally can’t stand the idea that it’s only possible to be safe and secure if you use gOS, an Android fork that runs only on Pixel phones. leave aside the ridiculous concept that you have to give money to Google in order to escape its clutches, I maintain that those things are unnecessary. they are secure, but in the wrong way.
they have kernel hardening shit and encrypt this and that and verifiable boot and evil maid safe and sandbox to prevent malicious apps to get at your shit and whatnot, and if you’re a MIT-educated Jason Bourne on the run from 5eyes or whoever, all of them things can come in handy.
but the humongously vast majority of us need but two things:
a) a lost or stolen device doesn’t compromise me; the fuck that got it can’t access my data and/or impersonate me. practically every AOSP/LineageOS version has this. b) the apps I get and the underlying OS are my agents; they do shit I want, the way I want to and if that’s in conflict with its creator’s ideas, I take precedence and not the other way around; forgoing Google in its entirety via AOSP/LOS/F-droid takes care of this.
both easily accomplished with a repurposed $50 phone and fixing and/or replacing the fucker at that price point is a no-brainer, wherever you’re based.
the idea that a used phone that was touched and rubbed and spat all over and taken to the shitter and godknowswhatelse at $300 should be the entry barrier for not getting assraped on the reg, I don’t know what to tell you, except maybe check your privilege, idk.
raspberries were viable while those were cheap. I think I got a 3b (plus?) in pre-deficit years for like $25 second-hand AND I got some shitty case AND a microSD card AND it could run off of a somewhat normal USB phone charger. so using those instead of a 10 year old decommissioned desktop was an awesome value proposition.
nowadays, those devices are encroaching on trip-digits territory and the power adapter is like $30. the computing power you can buy for a third of that designates raspberries exclusively for niche use cases where footprint and power consumption are primary considerations.
not to mention fake Jason Statham just rubs me the wrong way, like all them “visionaries”. he makes this sound like he’s the head of Feed Africa or something, on a noble mission to save humanity and whatnot.
I have no alternative but used phone + lineageOS; the stuff you’re mentioning (new phone with whatever crap they installed on there) isn’t even on my radar as an option.
as to longevity, it’s a stop-gap to hold us over until postmarketOS or any of its brethren are ready. banking on the benevolence of evilcorp to give us this thing for free for ever isn’t a viable strategy.
it’s not “forever”. it’s however long they don’t have any ideas to the contrary.
why it was implemented - so that executive #279 can show executive #114 that number go up. look how our engagement is rising! look at all them people downloading our app! when I took over from exec #317, number was this big, lookie now!
same way google made their search worse, so you have to search multiple times, thus upping the engagment, page views, etc. and then exec X goes to exec Y and say “look there’s a huge rise in searches where my bonus at!”
that’s the part that’s bothering you? not evil corp doing evil things in the charge of its evil overlord?
piracy didn’t start with the internet and won’t end on it. like with porn, it always finds a way.
for future reference, encrypt your drives from the get-go. even if it’s not a mobile device, you can use on-device keys to unlock it without a pass-phrase.
source: used shred on a couple of 3.5" 4 TB drives before selling them, took ages…
kodi and its derivatives are not something you should be using. it’s shit software on so many levels and we should burn it in the deepest volcanos we got.
try one of these:
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run lineageOS TV (konstakang images) on it and install regular ATV apps for the services mentioned. so, like googletv except there’s no spying and ads and shit.
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create a normal linux box that has a DLNA sink e.g. using macast. there’s no remote control, you use your android/iOS device to send it stuff, like movie from Jellyfin or a youtube video, and it plays it back and allows some control (pause, play, rew/ff, etc)
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dedicated Jellyfin box; same as 2) but boots right into jellyfin client. it can be run in TV mode where it reacts to only up/down/left/right/enter/back, via gamepad or remote controller. if yours isn’t recognised, you can emulate it with InputRemapper.
not familiar with how twitch does stuff.
you also have the option of installing a normal raspi distro and then using a wireless keyboard and mouse/touchpad to run it, but I am of the opinion that once the device gets placed by the TV, it loses all keyboard and mouse privileges and should only be operated via the TV’s remote.